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Global Azure Bootcamp is worldwide event that takes place on same day all around the wold. This year it took place in 286 different location and for the first time, Sarajevo was on of those locations. Event was hosted by Authority Partners and it was placed in AP Lab Talent & Innovation Center. And 1st…

Last week, on 24th of June, I had honor of speaking on first Azure Saturday in Munich, Germany. It was great event, I had good crowd in my Azure Stack – Transform your data center to Azure session. Also I met some great guys there, not only experts in their field, but true friends I look…

I’ve been experimenting and deploying Azure Stack PoC since TP1 was released. Since then, lot of things changed, first with Azure Stack TP2 and later with TP3. Idea of running Azure like environment in my datacenter was amazing to me and I tried to test it right away. Here are hardware requirements for Azure Stack…

Lately I didn’t write much as I was pretty busy with conference speaking and job change (Senior System Engineer with Authority Partners since January). In next few posts, I’ll try to sum my conference experience in April. First in ‘April tour’ was Tarabica # IT Conference in Belgrade that took place on 8 April 2017. Tarabica…

Recently, I got lot of questions on how to determine tier and performance level for Azure SQL Database. Therefore, I decided to write my next post about this topic. To determine correct tier for specific workload, you have to take into account multiple parameters. First, let us talk about Azure SQL database tiers. Azure SQL…

One of most interesting things last year was release of MS SQL Server for Linux. Like I said in some of my posts before, I wouldn’t have dreamt of it 5-6 years ago. But things changed very much in last few years and this is another big step Microsoft took toward OpenSource community. In this post I will…

As I promised in one of previous posts, I’ll write about scheduling MS SQL database to Azure Storage Account. We’ll start with creating new Storage Account. Go to Azure Portal and click ‘New’. Select ‘Storage’ and ‘Storage account’. Enter parameters for your Storage account. Enter name, deployment model must be ‘Classic'(as ARM will not be visible…

I did few sessions on Azure Server Management Tools but my friend Romeo Mlinar keeps missing them. So he asked me today when will I do ‘How to’ article on SMT and here we are. Server Management Tools is great tool that helps you manage your servers remotely in a browser. Almost any browser is supported,…

Things in Azure change very quickly. It happened more then once that I did lecture on some Azure subject and in next few days half of it was out of date. Same thing almost happened to me on November 23 when I did webinar for Microsoft on Linux/Windows VM deployment in minutes (it can be accessed…

One of most used Azure service is backup. Storage is very cheap in Azure and it gives us option of creating backup very far away from our on-prem environment. In this post I will cover basics on how to create MS SQL database backup to Azure Storage. Note that for using this option you need…